Senior Software Engineer

About you 

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About this role 

• Search experience team is responsible for building search systems that connect our learners to the best matching learning content for their needs. In a way, the team is designing user experiences that unlock the breadth and depth of the diverse set of learning content available to learners in Udemy. Search experience team works with a data driven culture, formed of Data Scientists building machine learning algorithms, microservice based architectures to implement Machine Learning and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions to provide the best value to our learners. Follows a strict A/B experimentation based approach with smaller MVPs to best tailor the designed experience.
• As part of this dynamic team, you will be responsible for working with Product managers, user experience designers and data scientists to implement the best user experience that connects with ML and LLM reinforced search systems. Although the main responsibility of the role is focused on implementation of the front-end, we expect you to be able to support backend solutions, monitoring and observability of the user experience end-to-end.

What you'll be doing

• Contribute to the end-to-end implementation of Udemy’s in-site search experience across multiple product lines, improving and/or introducing different learning content discovery methodologies.
• Implement new front-end experiences with back-end services served over GraphQL.
• Implement monitoring, metrics and observability of the end-to-end user experience and optimize.
• Setting up best practices and aligning with company practices for the team.
• Work closely with Product, Design and Data Science/Analytics partners to ensure our products effectively solve customer problems and meet business objectives.
• Incorporate Experiment-Driven development in your daily work in order to improve overall customer journey.
• Participate in daily standup team meetings/bi-weekly sprint planning & sprint-end demo/retrospective and work cross-functionally with other teams to drive product innovation.

What you’ll have

• 4+ years of front-end engineering experience (full-stack engineering preferred).
• Expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript
• Advanced understanding of React, including React Hooks & Functional Components (or equivalent front-end frameworks)
• Experience designing scalable, secure and performant APIs (REST/GraphQL/gRPC)
• Willingness to learn and operate across the stack with Front End and Web Performance focuses
• Experience working with medium-sized agile development teams
• Lead large efforts involving multiple stakeholders
• Well organized, disciplined, and able to manage time and priorities effectively

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.
• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.
• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.
• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

Our Benefits Start With U

Our benefits package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:

• Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
• Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
• Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
• Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
• Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities
• Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)